Grand Views

Every now and again I get a little burst of motivation and itch to get collaging and about a few weeks ago I got that itch, pulled out all my supplies and made a complete and utter mess of my floor. Totally worth it though. 

I've been really into using black and white foregrounds, mostly found from books about the past, old photographs and creating weird and over exaggerated backgrounds such as skies and mountains; using images from books about the natural world and things we don't usually see. 

Its sort of like creating a alternate world, views that could only imagine and making them a little more real; probably my favourite type of collages to do.

Delicate Things

When you a vase of dying flowers that still look too pretty to throw away, what are you to do? 

I thought it would be quite a cool idea to scan the flowers/petals and just mess around with it, no purpose and no real thought put into it. Who says something weird and dying still can't make something beautiful. 

These actually turned out a lot better than I originally thought and I'm really into doing more of it and more with it. 

As well as just scanning the petals I tried adding some type and things I'd found or had to work them together. Again this was just another experiment I wanted to try out and thought why not. This one ended up being what looks like a poster for something or a cover etc. Although some of it is a bit smudged and fuzzy, I still think it makes a good image.